# Lead Spaceflight Hardware Systems Engineer - METECS

METECS is seeking an experienced Lead Spaceflight Hardware Systems Engineer to provide systems engineering leadership for the development, integration, verification, qualification, acceptance, and delivery of spaceflight hardware. You will coordinate the development of integrated electromechanical and electronic hardware, bringing together mechanical, electrical, quality, manufacturing, supplier, and test activities. Your involvement in integration and test will help ensure that requirements and interfaces are clearly defined, understood, and verified. Responsibilities: Lead systems engineering activities for spaceflight hardware development. Define and maintain hardware requirements, interfaces, technical baselines, and verification methods. Coordinate mechanical, electrical, quality, manufacturing, supplier, and test activities. Facilitate design trade studies and risk assessments; lead integration, troubleshooting, and anomaly resolution. Develop verification, qualification, and acceptance strategies and ensure supporting evidence satisfies applicable requirements. Lead or support key design, test-readiness, qualification, and acceptance reviews. Coordinate development activitie

- **Id**: 3647591
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/metecs-lead-spaceflight-hardware-systems-engineer-metecs>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Houston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T23:20:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T16:13:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3003
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 3854042
- **Name**: METECS
- **Domain**: metecs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/metecs>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: JazzHR

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T23:20:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 89
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.892
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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